What will — and won't — change about nursing in 50 years

Becker's Healthcare September 11, 2023
Mariah Taylor

The technology healthcare will use in 50 years is impossible to predict, but nursing leaders agree that the one thing that will not change is the importance of caring individuals at the bedside.

Many leaders predict nurses will mostly leave the hospital setting to do more community work and hospitals will be used only for the sickest of the sick.

Here are seven nurse leaders on other ways nursing will change over the next 50 years.

Editor’s note: Responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Vi-Anne Antrum, DNP, RN. Chief Nursing Officer at Cone Health (Greensboro, N.C.): In 50 years, much of nursing’s work is being delivered through technology-enabled applications virtually and in the home. Hospitals are utilized...

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